There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.